Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.
If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long they have departed.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become
Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
How long should you try? Until.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.
